Nylanderia dodo

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Nylanderia dodo
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Lasiini
Genus: Nylanderia
Species: N. dodo
Binomial name
Nylanderia dodo
(Donisthorpe, 1946)

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Specimen labels

Identification

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -20.03333333° to -20.03333333°.

 
North
Temperate
North
Subtropical
Tropical South
Subtropical
South
Temperate

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Malagasy Region: Mauritius (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.
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Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.
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Biology

Castes

Images from AntWeb

Pseudolasius dodo casent0055780 head 1.jpg
Queen (ergatoid). Specimen code casent0055780. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Worker. Specimen code casent0059506. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by CAS, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Worker. Specimen code casent0101499. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by MNHN, Paris, France.
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Worker. Specimen code casent0102299. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.
Pseudolasius dodo casent0102300 head 1.jpgPseudolasius dodo casent0102300 profile 1.jpgPseudolasius dodo casent0102300 dorsal 1.jpg
Worker. Specimen code casent0102300. Photographer April Nobile, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences. Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • dodo. Pseudolasius dodo Donisthorpe, 1946c: 782 (w.) MAURITIUS. Combination in Acropyga: Bolton, 1995b: 57; in Pseudolasius: LaPolla, 2002: 378; in Nylanderia: LaPolla, Brady & Shattuck, 2010a: 127.

Description

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References

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

  • Donisthorpe H. 1946. New species of ants (Hym. Formicidae) from the Island of Mauritius. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)12: 776-782.
  • Donisthorpe, Horace. 1946. New Species of Ants (Hym., Formicidae) from the Island of Mauritius. Annals and Magazine of National History. 12:776-782.
  • Donisthorpe, Horace. 1946. The Ants (Hym. Formicidae) of Mauritius. Annals and Magazine of National History. Ser. 11. 13:25-35.
  • Fisher B. L. 2005. A new species of Discothyrea Roger from Mauritius and a new species of Proceratium Roger from Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (4)56: 657-667.
  • LaPolla, J.S. 2002. On the generic placement of Pseudolasius dodo (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with taxonomic notes on the genus. Transections of the American Entomological Society 128(3):377-383